Personal Details of Abner Oliver

 

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Buried:  10/03/1864

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Cemetery accounts

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Name at death Abner Oliver
Date of burial 10/03/1864
Whence brought Newbury
Where & how buried Unconsecrated - Common Interment
By whom buried Rev'd. H.N. Burgess
Account Entry Book 1 - Page 71

Accounts Entry for Abner Oliver
© Newbury Town Council
Reproduced with kind permission


Biographical Information

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Abner Oliver c1864-1864

Abner Oliver

c1864-1864

Abner’s birth was registered in the March quarter 1864, in Newbury, Berkshire. He was privately baptised on the 5th March 1864 at St Nicolas Church Newbury, the son of Abner (a Labourer) and Emma Oliver (nee Hicks) who were married on the 12th June 1859 in Thatcham, Berkshire.

Abner died soon after birth, he was buried in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 10th March.

Abner’s family:

Abner’s father Abner was born c1836 in Bagnor, Berkshire, the son of David and Kezia Oliver (nee Taylor) who were married on the 27th December 1832 at St Mary the Virgin, Speen.

His mother Emma was born in 1842 in Thatcham, Berkshire, the daughter of Henry and Elizabeth Hicks (nee Bye) who were married on the 27th March 1842 in Thatcham.

Abner and Emma also had the following children (all born in Newbury):

Frederick George c1860

Elizabeth 1862

Emma c1865

William 1867 (died aged 17, buried in the NRC on the 17th July 1883)

Unnamed child in 1869 (buried in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 20th January)

Thomas Haylock c1870

James c1872 (no birth registration found)

Louisa 1875

The family were recorded living in Northcroft Lane, Newbury, in 1861-1891.

Abner was recorded as an Agricultural Labourer in 1861, a Labourer in 1871 and 1881, and a Bricklayer’s Labourer in 1891

Emma suffered from fits, sadly she was out walking in Northcroft, by the stream, on the 19th April 1896 when she had a fit, she landed face down in the stream and drowned. She was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 22nd April.

The 1901 census records Abner (60) as a General Labourer, living at 12 Kennet Court, Newbury, with his “2nd wife” Lillie (41) (no marriage found for this couple yet!)

He died aged 74 in 1910 in Newbury

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